News archive from 9 August 2013

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Tom Hanks is doing the double at the London Film Festival - as movies starring the Oscar-winning actor will both open and close the 2013 event.
This year's star-studded affair will close with the story of how Walt Disney brought Mary Poppins to the...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

The furthest look back through time yet - 100 years to 300,000 years after the Big Bang - has provided enticing new clues as to what might have happened.
U.S. researchers have conducted an extensive analysis of the thermal radiation left over from the...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are preparing the listing, the FT reported.
A spokesman for Riverstone Holdings, where former BP (BP.L) chief John Browne is a partner, declined to comment on the report.
(Reporting by Karen Rebelo in Bangalore; Editing by...

Economists were quick to point out that the overall trend remained subdued and it was too early to treat a 5.1 percent rise in exports from a year ago and an even bigger 10.9 percent jump in imports as signs of an imminent turnaround.
Indeed, exports...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

Metropolitan Police fraud squad officers are assessing whether to investigate allegations of misconduct in public office and fraud made against the BBC's severance payments and benefits for senior managers.
Conservative MP Rob Wilson requested the Met...

The Irish Sun has dropped its topless page three pin-ups, saying it "caters for a different audience" to the UK edition which is keeping the long-running feature.
The paper's editor Paul Clarkson said: "The Irish Sun shares the same...